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Srinivasa Varadhan, Courant Institute, "Entropy and Large Deviations"

Friday, February 6, 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Towne 337

Abstract:

The concept of entropy was introduced in Statistical Mechanics to describe the abundance of microstates that correspond to a  given macrostate. It plays a crucial rolein probability in the estimation of probabilities for large deviations. We will explore this connection.